Former IMPD police officer David Bisard is escorted through the tunnel of the Allen County Courthouse in Fort Wayne, Indiana as he heads to his sentencing on Tuesday, November 26, 2013.

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Former Indianapolis police officer David Bisard has set the wheels in motion for an appeal of his conviction of felony drunken-driving charges.

The state's public defender agency has requested court transcripts and other documents from Allen Superior Court, where Bisard was given a 16-year prison sentence in November.

A jury convicted Bisard of nine counts of drunken driving, reckless homicide and criminal recklessness for driving his patrol car into a group of motorcyclists while responding to a nonemergency call. ...